__________________ "all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
~Declaration of Independence
Is it wrong for men to wear shorts to their knees Women in the UPC wear skirts to their knees. How about a beard, is that wrong???????
Yes. We are told to be and look different than the world. So think my friend . Do you look different? Does your church look different from the others? I am in Mississippi and a member of the Worldwide Pentecostal Fellowship. If you trust your pastor then you should obey.
well, I was (or at least thought I was) clear on these standards 10 years ago. As far as me bringing them up on this forum, it was this forum that made me think about what I believe.
Respectfully if a forum full of people who have as varied a set of beliefs as the local mall on any given Saturday has impacted your understanding of who God is, and how you relate to him, I would suggest you never really gave any consideration to that subject to begin with.
I suspect you thought you knew who you were, you came here and saw questions you really had not spent time understanding and settling in your own heart.
As one minister told me, until you have that "crisis of faith" you really have no idea what you believe.
It is only once you come out the other side that you really are settled in your doctrine.
I would for the second or third time, suggest that this place not be the place where you settle eternal matters.
(Dear AFF friends, the above post is in no way meant to impugn any of you. Rather it is to suggest that one should never weigh eternal matters by the musings of others whose spiritual commitment cannot be understood. I know some of you. Some of you know me, but as a body we are little more than strangers. This is a fun place. We have a good time here. But for the weighty matters of my soul, I have trusted men who have walked with me and who's lives I know and who's commitment to God I have witnessed that I turn to when in need of council.)
__________________ If I do something stupid blame the Lortab!
Respectfully if a forum full of people who have as varied a set of beliefs as the local mall on any given Saturday has impacted your understanding of who God is, and how you relate to him, I would suggest you never really gave any consideration to that subject to begin with.
I suspect you thought you knew who you were, you came here and saw questions you really had not spent time understanding and settling in your own heart.
As one minister told me, until you have that "crisis of faith" you really have no idea what you believe.
It is only once you come out the other side that you really are settled in your doctrine.
I would for the second or third time, suggest that this place not be the place where you settle eternal matters.
(Dear AFF friends, the above post is in no way meant to impugn any of you. Rather it is to suggest that one should never weigh eternal matters by the musings of others whose spiritual commitment cannot be understood. I know some of you. Some of you know me, but as a body we are little more than strangers. This is a fun place. We have a good time here. But for the weighty matters of my soul, I have trusted men who have walked with me and who's lives I know and who's commitment to God I have witnessed that I turn to when in need of council.)
I agree.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
Talking to your Pastor is the place to start. And study the Word thoroughly, and the Holy Ghost will be your Counselor.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
Respectfully if a forum full of people who have as varied a set of beliefs as the local mall on any given Saturday has impacted your understanding of who God is, and how you relate to him, I would suggest you never really gave any consideration to that subject to begin with.
I suspect you thought you knew who you were, you came here and saw questions you really had not spent time understanding and settling in your own heart.
As one minister told me, until you have that "crisis of faith" you really have no idea what you believe.
It is only once you come out the other side that you really are settled in your doctrine.
I would for the second or third time, suggest that this place not be the place where you settle eternal matters.
(Dear AFF friends, the above post is in no way meant to impugn any of you. Rather it is to suggest that one should never weigh eternal matters by the musings of others whose spiritual commitment cannot be understood. I know some of you. Some of you know me, but as a body we are little more than strangers. This is a fun place. We have a good time here. But for the weighty matters of my soul, I have trusted men who have walked with me and who's lives I know and who's commitment to God I have witnessed that I turn to when in need of council.)
__________________ "all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
~Declaration of Independence
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